Sign up for our annual CFSM and (B)OrderS Centre Conference from 29 to 30 May 2025:
Migration and Border Studies: Prospects and Possibilities within and beyond Academia
The call for papers is open until 10th April 2025, midday. Proposals must include: a title; name(s) email address(es) and organisational affiliations of author(s) and a 250-word abstract. Please send to cfsm@qmul.ac.uk and include Paper Proposal in the subject line.
Refugee Week 2025 at QMUL:
Book talk: Rachel Humphris - Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship and Urban Governance
09 April 2025 12:30-14:00, Laws G5.
Lunch is provided.
Dr Rachel Humphris (SPIR, QMUL) will present her recently published monograph ‘Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship and Urban Governance’ (Stanford University Press). From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement—municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement—has been a powerful and controversial side of progressive migration policy reform. In Making Sanctuary Cities, Rachel Humphris provides a new understanding of how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities and what political potentials are opened (and closed) by this designation.
Visiting researcher:
In June 2025, the Centre will be hosting Professor Jonathan Crush, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada and University of the Western Cape, on an IHSS Visiting Fellowship. An expert on migration, food security and politics in Africa, Professor Crush is also very experienced in leading international interdisciplinary research teams. He is currently leading a project funded by the Canadian New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF, $2.5 million) exploring the gendered intersections of climate change, food insecurity and migrant remittances. Prof Kavita Datta and Prof Tim Brown in the School of Geography are the QM partners on this project which comprises 42 collaborators drawn from Canada, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and the UK. A series of events are planned, details of which will be posted here.
Past Events:
Book talk: Parvati Nair - Displacement, Environments and Photo-Politics in the Mediterranean: Migrant Sea
11 February 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Bookmarks Bookshop, WC1B3QE
Professor Parvati Nair from the School of the Arts is launching her book, Displacement, Environments, and Photo-Politics in the Mediterranean Migrant Sea, in which she explores the visual politics of migration across the Mediterranean. The evening will include a panel discussion chaired by Prof Yasmin Ibrahim (QM) and including Prof Liz Wells (University of Plymouth) and Prof Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University).